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Friday, 8 April 2011

This is my entry to theGauche Alchemy Julie Fei-Fan Balzer painted page challenge which is due for today (eek!):

It's a page about the house I grew up in (the address is on the tag but I have blurred that for privacy)

This is the journalling:

...and the finished page:

The dark blue background to the photo is a piece of canvas cloth that I coloured with a Memento ink pad (as seen on QVC today!) All the letters were painted blue. They were from 3 different styles of chipboard lettering sets. The letters for OLD were distressed, I attempted to crackle them but that didn't work out. I've added vintage buttons using Glossy Accents and everything else was stuck down using PVA or Multi-Medium. The reason for the blue colour was because for many years the paintwork on the house was blue so that is how I remember it.

I showed you how I made the painted background on this slideshow post here a few days ago. For the layout of this one, I used a sketch from the 'Pencil Lines' book that I (woohoo!) got for Christmas. I'm just off to link this layout with Gauche Alchemy now and then its off to bed with me, its the middle of the night!

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Hi Nicky! Thanks for playing along with Julie's challenge on the Gauche Alchemy blog! Your entry's gorgeous! I lovelovelove the background you've created! It's got so much depth and texture! Just THE perfect backdrop for that photo! :)

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